Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of girls sitting at a table with dolls having a tea party on a float at the Ocean Park Baby Parade in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California. A sign on the side of the float reads "Dolls Tea Party."
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A couple sitting around a tea table. The elderly man, who has appeared in many of the photos, is reading a newspaper or magazine with a cigar in his mouth. The woman is in the background, also reading. (Pearson family photo?)
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Photographs of Cliff May and one of his daughters seated in an enclosed patio; Cliff May, Maynard Parker and unidentified young women roasting hot dogs around the firepit; and three girls seated on a bench on the patio.
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An accordion foldout print on Japanese paper advertising Mason, Ehrman & Co.'s Golden Crown Tea. The print is enclosed within two chrysanthemum-patterned cloth covered boards and inscribed "To Zaidee by a traveling man from Mason, Ehrman and Co. in Portland, Oregon," with the name "Gussie" inscribed on another panel. The item includes twelve color woodblock prints done by an unknown printer; eleven of the prints depict the process of preparing and shipping tea in Japan with captions below each scene. The twelfth print includes text by the company advertising the product, along with an image of a crown trademark. Scenery includes Japanese landscape, architecture, ships, and people in traditional dress. From left-to-right captions read: picking tea; carrying tea from the garden to be fired; first process native firing; second process native firing; native sifting; hand picking; pan firing at Yokohama; basket firing at Yokohama; packing & sifting and Yokohama; tea firing premises Yokohama; shipping tea by Empress of India.
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The people, from left to right, are Victor Mature, Connie Compaigne, Sheila Stapler, "Buck" Edgar Buchanan, Hal Landon, and Ann West (Wood). Compaigne and Buchanan are seated at a table in dining room, while a standing Mature speaks to Compaigne, and Stapler carries a silver tray. Landon is standing next to the fireplace speaking to a seated West. George Romney's Catherine (Halead) Burton (1789) hangs over the fireplace. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "Tea party group in Dining Room, Huntington Art Gallery. Original fireplace from old house in Hanover Square, London, 1755. Chairs, Georgian, about 1740. Tea table, about 1760." Buchanan has elsewhere been identified as Frederick Blanchard.
photCL 107 vol13 (29c)
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A full-length studio portrait of two girls, probably between eight and twelve, in a forest setting. The girls are wearing matching dresses with a checked white pattern and fringe at the top, and both are holding hats decorated with flowers on their laps. The girl on the right is sitting on a thick log and leaning slightly towards the other. Both girls have dark hair that reaches just past their ears.
photCL 283 (38)
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